Hello!
Not too busy of a week this week either. We're just kind of doing our normal thing, which you all kind of know about. But here it goes anyways...
Monday - Had p-day as a district together. We went to a Mexican restaurant, because one of our sisters really, really wanted to, and because Mexican restaurants basically don't exist in Korea. It was good, but expensive - it would like maybe $25 to fill you up completely. We all bought "super burritos," which were only 12 inches, and that was $10.
Then we went and played board games together, at Elder Brower's request. It was fun. We were planning on going over by 우도 (Udo) again this week, but it's raining (not snowing!), so we'll probably just play the games again this week.
Tuesday - Met with a less active, Brother Nelson. He's from Hawaii, and married a Korean, so that's why he's in 서귀포. He's hard to call a less active - his parents were members, but he stopped atteneding church when he was like 12, and I think had only been back like 2-3 times since. But he's a really nice guy - whenever we meet him, he buys us lunch, and then we go over to his house to talk. He believes in God and Jesus Christ, but just kind of feels like all he needs to do is live well and treat others well - he doesn't think things like scripture study, and going to church are important. That's hard to deal with, since he already has beliefs, but hopefully we can help him see things differently.
After that we met with our branch president. We realized that since I've came to 서귀포, we haven't shared a message with him, so we did that. We vistited another less active with him, and then he took out to a Korean "고기 집" (literally "meat house") and we ate until we thought we were going to die. It's sooo good!
Wednsday - We had district meeting, though I don't remember much of that. Normally, we have someone give a lesson about Korean, someone give a talk, and then someone does teaching practice, where we practice teaching (of course...), trying to focus on a certain skill or goal.
Then we met with Brother 전충식 at night. The lessons didn't go all that well, and Elder Brower and I kind of talked about when we should drop him (it's a hard situation since he's keeping commitments, he's doing the things he needs to to gain a testimony, but I don't know if he's all that interested in the Gospel, at least not spiritually. He likes history though.).
Thursday - Weekly planning. Basically, we talk about our investigators, and then set goals for our stats for the upcoming week. It usually talkes a couple of hours, but it makes life easier for the next week, to have plans set for what we're doing when.
And then we went to President 문경호's house for a service project. He cleaned out a closet, so what we mostly did is carry the garbage into his truck, and then we drove out to throw it all out. He did most of the work though, since there could only be one person in the closet at a time. Had dinner, studied some English, had our spiritual message.
Friday - Met with another sort of less active lady. She comes to church maybe 1/3 of the time. In any case, she is hard to work with, because she had a really, really, really heavy accent. We don't know what she's saying like 90% of the time, so mostly we agree with her. She likes the missionaries though, and thinks that everything we say is hilarious. Mostly, we visit her because she calls us and tells us to visit. She's a nice lady though.
Met again with Brother 전충식, this time with a member. It went better for sure, but we're still not sure about how to help him progress and find faith and all that. We talked about Christ, and his centralness in the Plan of Salvation. He seemed to understand pretty well.
Saturday - Spent some time trying to follow up on some potential investigators, but they were all busy, so we'll have to get back to them later. Taught English class, which might be a problem in the future. We have a member help teach (she's from America), but she goes back in a few months, and so we now need to figure out how to teach English class without her. Basically, the problem is, we have one English class member, 김경봉 (Gyeoungbong Kim) who really, really likes to talk. So much to the point that we can't really put him in a class with other people, because the others don't like it. We have been teaching in 3 classes - our member teach one family, one of the elders teach kind of a basic level class, and one of us go toe-to-toe with the Brother 김경봉. But that's someting to figure out later I suppose.
And after that, we visited a recent convert/less active, 은샘. He's like 15, but just hasn't been coming to church. We have members drop by before church starts, but nobody comes to the door. We don't really know what the problem is, but he meets with us every week.
Sunday - Church, of course!
And dinner at President 윤성조's house.
And that was our week! Any remaining time we used to do kind of our normal "we have time" activities, whether that be calling former investigators, trying to find people out on the streets, or looking for less actives.
Thanks for all the prayers, the love and support! I miss you all, but I'll get to see you all shortly enough. I've been in Korea for 7.5 months now, and I can hardly believe it. That's like 1/3 of of my time in Korea! Wow.
Love you all!
- Elder Luke
Notes:
서귀포: Seogwipo, the city he's in.
고기 집: Gogi jib, "meat house." (Google Translate renders this as "meat home," which sounds kinda cool.) I'm guessing this is "Korean barbecue," or what in Japanese would be called a 焼き肉屋 (yakinikuya). Pasting that Korean text into a Google image search turn up a lot of photos of what appear to be fairly typical Korean barbecue restaurants.
전충식: Jeon Chungsik, the main guy they've been teaching for a couple of months now.
문경호: Mun Gyeongho, second counselor in the district presidency. Introduced before by Andrew two weeks ago, on February 3.
전충식: Jeon Chungsik again.
은샘: Eunsaem, the fifteen-year-old.
윤성조: Yun Seonjo, the district president, who is a martial arts teacher. Andrew has mentioned him several times before.
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